Police reportedly met a Southwest Airlines flight as it landed at Chicago’s Midway Airport Saturday due to a passenger allegedly stripping naked and pooping on her seat during landing. According to NBC New York, Southwest Airlines issued a statement that law enforcement and medical personnel met flight 418 from Philadelphia to Chicago’s Midway Airport upon arrival to address “a situation involving a customer.” “Our Teams are reaching out to those onboard to apologize for the situation and any delays to their travel plans,” the airline said in a statement, according to the outlet. “Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of our customers and employees, and we appreciate the professionalism of our flight crew,” it added. Southwest Airlines passenger stripped naked, pooped on seat: report https://t.co/FfajRVTFOR pic.twitter.com/71qozBl6CS — New York Post (@nypost) April 27, 2025 From the New York Post: It wasn’t clear what happened to the passenger. The plane was taken out of service for cleaning, according to the report. Last month, Southwest had a more serious mishap at Chicago Midway Airport, when a landing jet had a near-miss with a taxiing jet due possibly to a sun glare, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. HOLY SH*T! Southwest Airlines Passenger Poops on Seat After Stripping Naked READ: https://t.co/UWgL9Xsgta pic.twitter.com/fZ2hgBq9Bv — The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) April 27, 2025 Per NBC New York: The incident follows a series of flight-related troubles for airlines. Most recently, a Southwest flight in Houston was evacuated due to an engine fire. Southwest announced this month it will reduce its capacity later this year as it expects revenue to dip. The airline is also just one month away from shifting its long-held policies and charging passengers for checked baggage.

Two deputies from the Columbia County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) have been shot during a traffic stop incident in Georgia, killing one of the officers.

The UK’s highest court recently declared that a woman is defined by biology, and people are weighing in, continuing the debate. One person who offered what he calls a compromise is politician Rory Stewart. He wants men who claim to be women to compete in women’s sports. Anything else is “unfair.” Being a woman is […] The post UK Academic Wants to Compromise on Trans Females appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

THE CENTER SQUARE—California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state is now the world’s fourth largest economy. But after accounting for the high cost of goods and services, California only barely edges out low-performing Italy, with the state’s continued losses in private sector jobs amid falling corporate and sales tax revenue painting a darker picture of the Golden State’s economy.  “California isn’t just keeping pace with the world—we’re setting the pace,” said Newsom on the 2024 economic rankings. “Our economy is thriving because we invest in people, prioritize sustainability, and believe in the power of innovation.” However, after accounting for purchasing power parity—how much can be purchased in the local economy with local currency, which provides a more accurate comparison—California’s economy is ranked 11th, at $3.6 trillion. That’s just barely ahead of Italy and Turkey—at $3.6 trillion and $3.5 trillion respectively, and well behind the tenth-ranked United Kingdom at $4.3 trillion. “While California enjoys a high GDP, it dissipates the effective purchasing power through high and increasing costs of living,” wrote the California Center for the Jobs and the Economy in a report. “Using the most current U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parities to adjust California’s current GDP to an equivalent statistic, California barely edged ahead of Italy from 12th to 11th highest when GDP is measured by IMF’s purchasing power parity series.” “This shift in rank is a stark illustration of the extent to which the costs of living sap the economic reach of the state’s households,” continued CCJE.  When asked about the latest state employment statistics finding jobs fell as private sector jobs decreased more than government-funded jobs increased, CCJE president Brooke Armour highlighted the underlying weakness of the California economy. “California’s March jobs report confirms a troubling trend: The state’s private sector is contracting, while employment growth is increasingly driven by government-funded programs,” Armour told The Center Square. “This is not a sustainable path to economic vitality. We need to focus on policies that encourage private sector investment and job creation, rather than relying on taxpayer-funded employment to drive our economy forward.” The March preliminary jobs report found the state lost a net 11,600 jobs, while the February jobs loss of 7,500 was adjusted to a loss of 21,800. The state lost 26,800 private sector jobs from February to March, while gaining 15,200 government and government-supported jobs.  Of the net increase in 15,200 taxpayer-funded jobs, 10,400 were in the “Health Care & Social Assistance” category.  Should trends from the past year hold—in which 58% of “Health Care & Social Assistance” jobs come from “Individual & Family Services,” which in turn is “primarily” from elderly or disabled Californians using taxpayer funds to pay household members part-time minimum wage to provide care, state employment is even weaker than the data suggests.  This, in turn, could create challenges for the state budget, with costs to maintain the current level of government services growing due to California inflation remaining well above national levels while the number of net-taxpayer private sector jobs declining. Originally published by The Center Square The post Newsom Touts Calif. as World’s 4th-Largest Economy on Paper as Real Jobs Fall appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Regime Media are in the midst of rolling out a new immigration victimhood narrative, after embarrassing themselves and losing further standing over their absurd white knighting of the deported confirmed MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But if the Sunday Shows are any indication this new narrative- a hoax, actually: “Deported Citizen Babies”, is facing a similar result. On NBC’s Meet the Press, Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismantled the premise of citizen children being rounded up, and chastised the media’s use of language echoing the infamous Elián González raid of 1999 (click “expand” to view transcript):  Marco @SecRubio rebukes @kwelkernbc: “You guys make it sound like ICE agents kicked down the door and grabbed the 2-year-old and threw him on an airplane. That’s misleading. That’s just not true.” Welker: “Is it the U.S. policy to deport children, even U.S. citizens with their… pic.twitter.com/UcSooTEX5R — Brent Baker ???? ?? (@BrentHBaker) April 27, 2025 KRISTEN WELKER: Let's talk now about some new reporting that came in overnight. I want just to go through it with you and for our audience. Three U.S. citizen children have been deported with their mothers. Now this is according to The Washington Post. The family's lawyer says one of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer, deported without medication or ability to contact doctors. The family's lawyers are also saying their clients were denied communication with family and legal representatives before being deported, and it's raising concerns about the issue of due process. That it's being violated. So let me ask you, is everyone on U.S. soil, citizens and non-citizens, entitled to due process? MARCO RUBIO: Yes, of course. But let me tell you, it looks- in immigration standing, the laws are very specific. If you are in the country unlawfully, you have no right to be here and you must be removed. That's what the law says. Somehow over the last 20 years, we've completely lost this notion that somehow- or completely adopted this idea that yes, we have immigration laws but once you come into our country illegally it triggers all kinds of rights that can keep you here indefinitely. That's why we were being flooded at the border, and we’ve ended that. And that's why you don’t- you see a historically low number of people not just trying to cross our border, trying to cross the border into Panama, all the way down in the Darien Gap. I mean- i it's been a huge help for those countries as well. On the headline- that's a misleading headline. Okay? Three U.S. Citizens, ages 4, 7 and 2 were not deported. Their mothers who were illegally in this country were deported. The children went with their mothers. Those children are U.S. citizens- they can come back into the United States- there’s- their father or someone here who wants to assume them. But ultimately who was deported was the mother- their mothers who were here illegally. The children just went with their mothers. But it wasn’t like- you guys make it sound like ICA agents kicked down the door and grabbed the 2 year-old and threw them on an airplane. That’s misleading. That’s just not true. WELKER: Just to be clear, because I do want to get to the overhaul at the State Department. Is it the U.S. policy to deport children, even U.S. citizens, with their families- and I hear what you're saying- without due process? Just to be very clear there. RUBIO: Well- no, no, no. No, no. Again, if someone is in this country unlawfully, illegally, that person gets deported. If that person is with a 2-year-old child or has a 2-year-old child and says “I want to take my child with you- with me,” well then you have two choices. You can say yes, of course, you can take your child whether they're a citizen or not because it’s your child or you can say yes, you can go, but your child must stay behind. And then your headlines would read, “U.S. holding hostage 2-year old, 4-year-old, 7-year-old, while mother deported.”  It seems like Welker made a decision to inject “no due process” into her follow-up, no matter what Rubio said- no matter how brain-dead it comes across. There is no other reasonable explanation given Rubio’s initial response to the question.  Border Czar Tom Homan went a similar policy route when asked a version of the question by Margaret Brennan on CBS’s Faces of the Nation: WATCH: @RealTomHoman SCHOOLS CBS's Margaret Brennan, shatters the Deported Citizen Babies Hoax pic.twitter.com/qnPHApGqom — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 27, 2025 MARGARET BRENNAN: On Friday, there were three American citizen children, born here, who were deported along with their mothers from Louisiana down to Honduras. And according to advocates, one of them is a 4-year-old child with Stage Four cancer. A rare form of metastatic cancer who was sent back to Honduras without getting to talk to a doctor and without medication. I understand this child's mother entered this country illegally. But isn't there some basis for compassionate consideration here that should have allowed for more consultation or treatment? TOM HOMAN: Well, it certainly is discretionary. I'm not aware of this specific case. But no U.S. citizen child was deported. Deported means you gotta be ordered -- reported by the immigration judge. We don’t deport U.S. citizens. BRENNAN: The mother was deported along with the children. HOMAN: These children- Children aren't deported. The mother chose to take the children with her. When you enter the country illegally and you know you are here illegally and you choose to have a U.S. citizen child, that's on you. That's not on this administration. If you choose to put your family in that position, that's on them. But having a U.S. citizen child, after you enter this country illegally, is not a “get out of jail free” card. It doesn't make you immune from our laws. If that's the message we send to the entire world, women are going to keep putting themselves at risk and come to this country. We send a message: you can enter the country illegally, that's okay, you can have due process at great taxpayer expense, get ordered to move, that’s OK. Don't leave, but have a U.S. citizen child and you are immune from removal? That's not the way it works. BRENNAN: So you don't think there should be compassionate consideration for a 4-year-old child undergoing treatment for cancer? HOMAN: I didn't say that. I said ICE officers do have discretion- BRENNAN: That was the question. HOMAN: ICE officers do have discretion. I'm not familiar with the specific case. I don't know what facts surround this case. I was just made aware of this when you mentioned it this morning. I was not aware of that case. BRENNAN: On Friday, a federal judge who was appointed by President Trump said a 2-year-old American citizen child had been sent to Honduras with the mother. But the judge said, quote: “there was no meaningful process.” So again, this is another similar situation and dynamic. Shouldn't there be special care when the deportation cases involve small American-born children? HOMAN: First of all, I disagree with the judge. There was due process. That female had due process at great taxpayer expense and was ordered by an immigration judge after those hearings. So she had due process. Again, this is Parenting 101. And you can decide to take that child with you or you can decide to leave the child here with a relative or another spouse. Having a child doesn't make you immune from our laws of the country. American families get separated every day by law enforcement- thousands of times a day. When a parent gets put in jail, the child can't go with them. If you are an illegal alien and you come to this country and you decide to have a U.S. citizen child, that's on you. You put yourself in that position. BRENNAN: Well, when it came to this particular case, you just pointed out that they could have made arrangements. The father tried, actually, to make arrangements as we understand it through our reporting. But he and the mother who were separated, since she was in detention after showing up for her appointment, was only allowed a very brief phone call. The father tried to petition to get the child handed over to an American citizen relative. So the mother had to make this decision and took the child with her. It just seems like there could be some more time frame here around due process allowed. That's what the judge is saying, is saying- there should have been more of a process here. HOMAN: There was due process. The 2-year-old baby- the two year old baby was left with the mother because the mother signed a document requesting her 2-year-old baby go with her. That's the parent's decision. I don't think the judge knows the specifics of this case. The 2-year-old went with the mom. The mom signed a paper saying, “I want my 2-year-old to go with me.” That's a parent's decision. It's not a government decision, it’s a parent’s decision. BRENNAN: The father wrote a note. Anyhow, we have to leave it there, Director. Thank you for your time today. We’ll be right back. Brennan tried to force the hoax via the manipulative deployment of victim porn: in this case, repeated mentions of the 4-year-old with a rare form of cancer. When Homan refused the bait, Brennan discarded the cancer patient and then pivoted to the two-year-old, with the same result. There’s a lesson here, which is that the left and their media don’t care about these kids (or their parents) unless they can be deployed and paraded about as victims and supplicants. On ABC’s This Week, former DoJ spokesperson Sarah Isgur delivered the most succinct takedown of this emerging narrative: "Often times it's going to look more like a custody dispute than an immigration question." @whignewtons BURIES the emerging "Trump is deporting U.S. citizen babies" narrative pic.twitter.com/ZxasjrhtKE — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 27, 2025 MARTHA RADDATZ: Sarah, I want to turn here to some information that has been in The Washington Post about deportations of very young children who are American citizens. A 2-year-old, a 4-year-old, a 7-year-old sent back to Honduras. Is that legal? SARAH ISGUR: This is something our immigration system deals with nearly every day. U.S. citizen children have to make that decision with their parents of whether they're going to stay. The parent has the decision. We do not allow illegal alien parents to stay just because they have custody over U.S. citizen children, and at least one of these cases with the 2-year-old, the mother was the one who made the decision to take her daughter with her. The father is the one saying he wanted the daughter to stay here. Often times, it’s going to look more like a custody dispute than an immigration question. Custody dispute vs. immigration question is going to leave a sting. And, just like that and in a little over an hour the media’s latest hoax, the Deported Citizen Babies Hoax, was shattered.  

After a week of dealing with service calls to my internet company and having to go to many more stores than usual, I suspect there’s a coordinated campaign to prevent humans from talking to each other.I’m not entirely kidding. Have you noticed, especially since the “pandemic,” that it’s becoming the new-normal to be stopped from speaking to other people? We’re now directed to “interface” with machines. It happens on the phone, at gas stations, at grocery stores, at restaurants.There’s something so off about walking up to the register while one lone employee stands in front of the cigarette case and monitors you while you do his job.Have you been handed a piece of paper with a QR code on it when you’re seated at a restaurant and told to “scan this for the menu”? Have you been told (not “asked”) to scan your own groceries, bag them, and punch your payment into the register? How about the robotic phone tree lady that prevents you from speaking to a person at the gas company, the bank, or any other business you call?Phoning it inPeople have been complaining about the decline in customer service since at least as far back as the 1980s. The worst of it was the then-recently invented phone tree. Phone trees have always been irritating, but they’re out of control now: There is no human staffed department to which you can be directed. Worse, companies deliberately restrict the subjects you can “ask” about by leaving them off the menu options, and the systems hang up on you if you try to get a human agent.It’s getting infinitely worse with the overnight adoption of shiny, glittery-new AI technology. In the past month, I finally stopped doing business with my old internet company — a huge multinational company that you have heard of and not in fond terms — because it has programmed its AI “customer service rep” to blatantly refuse to connect customers with a human.Call waiting (and waiting)Here’s how these online chats go:AI agent: Please choose from billing, technical support, or new sales.Me: Need more options. Need agent.AI: Please choose from billing, technical support, or new sales.Me: Agent.AI: I’m sorry, please choose from ...Me: Agent! I need an agent! My question is not listed!AI: I’m sorry, but I cannot connect you to an agent until you follow the suggested steps above. Goodbye.And then the chat window closes, or the call disconnects. Yes, I’m serious. The robots now brazenly hang up on you if you don’t obey their commands. How did customers suddenly end up having to take orders from company devices instead of the other way around?Inconvenience storeIt’s no better in person, and I’m sorry to say that human behavior is just as bad as robotic misconduct. This week, I needed a five-gallon jug of kerosene. I heat and light my home in cold weather with restored antique kerosene lamps. These aren’t the small "Little House on the Prairie" oil lamps you’re thinking of; they’re big thirsty bad boys that put out major light and heat.So I go to the farm store, where they sell kerosene in large jugs at 40% less than other stores. When I walk over to the shelf, there’s nothing there. Damn. Now, I have to weigh whether or not to talk to a staff member. Fifteen years ago, this wasn’t a hard decision — in fact, it wasn’t a decision at all. But today? The most common response I get from store staff when asking for help is a facial expression that communicates irritation and an attitude meant to express, “You, customer, are inconveniencing me.” It’s most pronounced in anyone under 40, as Millennials and Gen Zers were not taught things like “doing your job” or “not being awful to the people who pay your wage through their customers.”I chance it and ask the frazzled 22-year-old at the register. He won’t make eye contact with me, of course. “Hi there. I see that the kerosene isn’t in its usual spot. Could you please tell me if you have it in stock, or when you will have it in stock again?”Without looking at me, he replies, “I don’t know.” What am I supposed to say to this? Wouldn’t you take that as another way of saying, “I’m not going to answer your question, and I want you to go away?” So I say, “Right. Could you please tell me who might know or how I will be able to find out whether I will be able to buy kerosene here and when that might be?”Annoyed, the cashier makes an exasperated noise and says, “They don’t tell us what’s coming on the truck. All I know is that it comes on Tuesdays and Thursdays — check back then.”When I worked retail, had my boss observed me speak to a patron like this, I would have been fired on the spot.No talkingMy last stop on this outing is to grab some lunch. There’s a brand-new gas station/convenience store/truck stop that just opened two miles up the road from where I live in Vermont. It’s sort of like a northern version of the famous Bucc-ee’s truck stop “malls” you see in the South. You can get hot and cold food, soft drinks, beer, liquor, small electronics accessories, motor oil, and toys to keep the kids quiet.Sadly, “make the customer do the store’s job” has metastasized to the corner store, too. This place is all self-checkout. There’s something so off about walking up to the register, while one lone employee stands in front of the cigarette case and monitors you while you do his job. There’s no etiquette for it. The employees don’t greet you, leaving you wondering if they’re afraid you’ll ask them to do something if they signal that they’re aware of your presence.I am prepared for that. I am not prepared for having to do the same thing for a sandwich. I stand at the deli counter for about two minutes, while two employees stand behind the counter 20 feet away chatting with each other as if I were not there. Then, it dawns on me. There is that bank of iPads blazing out saturated color. I, the customer, am forced to punch a touchscreen on the machine to put in my order. There is to be no talking to other humans.The device has every annoyance, starting with the fact that the customer is forced to learn a new, company-bespoke set of “buttons” and software, adding frustration and time to what ought to be a simple request. Employees won’t talk to you, of course, even when they know you’re having trouble. After finally (I think) placing my order, dramatic pipe organ music starts blaring from a hidden speaker. It’s playing a plagal cadence, the part at the end of a church hymn that goes “aaaaa-men.” Apparently, this signals that one’s order has been sent to St. Peter and will be delivered shortly.The younger of the two counter staffers looks at me briefly while the fanfare echoes against the tile walls. I say, “Am I allowed to talk to you?”She just stares at me.

Glenn Beck just got back from Washington, D.C., where he became the first member of the media to interview President Trump about his first 100 days in office. Their conversation was expansive, jumping from one hot topic to the next. However, off camera, there were just as many exciting things going on. On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn shared the best behind-the-scenes moments he shared with President Trump. 1. Solo in the Oval Office “[President Trump] left me alone with my wife in the Oval Office for like five minutes,” he tells co-host Stu Burguiere. “I was alone with the Declaration of Independence. I mean it was incredible.” “He said, ‘Nobody sits in here without the president,’” and “I said, 'I'm aware of that,’ and he said, ‘But I knew you'd want to look at everything, so I thought you'd be more comfortable if you were here by yourself,”’ Glenn recounts, calling the experience “fantastic.” 2. Personal White House tour Even though Glenn was allotted a strict 40 minutes for the interview, as President Trump had a meeting with the National Security Council to get to, that didn’t stop the president from taking Glenn on a personal tour of the White House. Just as White House aides were trying to usher Trump out of the interview and into the meeting, where high-ranking officials were waiting for him, he said, “Let them wait.” “He takes us through the entire White House room by room, shows us all of the meanings behind things — all the amazing things that nobody knows about the White House,” says Glenn. The tour even included a trip to the Lincoln Bedroom, which can only be given by the president of the United States. Glenn says the room was “a time capsule,” complete with the famous massive rosewood bed, a spooky painting of Lincoln said to be his favorite portrait of himself, an enormous mirror, eight feet by four feet, and a writing desk where one of four copies of the Gettysburg Address resides. 3. The REAL Trump While the media goes to great lengths to paint him in every negative light it can conjure up, the truth is that Donald Trump is “always energized,” personable and caring, a brilliant historian, and, most importantly, “still humble,” says Glenn. At one point, President Trump said to him, “Every day, Glenn, I wake up and I say to myself, 'I can't believe I'm in this house.'" To hear more of Glenn’s behind-the-scenes stories from his time at the White House with President Trump, including a story about Hillary Clinton allegedly stealing doorknobs, watch the clip above. Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.